Tag Results For: malware

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Remove Virus And Malwares With Portable Rizone Virus Cleaner

Virus Cleaners are essential as the web is bursting with a lot of elusive viruses which are crawling 24/7, ready to pounce on your system. Anti-virus tools are also in numbers and very efficient in relative attributes & areas. The portability factor is one which seems useful when it comes to such virus cleaning tools. [...] (more…)

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Virus And Malware Software Removal With ComboFix [Windows]

We at AddictiveTips are very keen on our system security. However, from time to time a malicious piece of software still manages to get its way through our defensive measures. It so happened with me that a rootkit managed to somehow get into my machine and infected the svchost.exe service. It proved more persistent than [...] (more…)

IOBit Rips Off Others Hard Work, Promotes Spyware

Before I begin, I would like to remind everyone that in every field there are two types of people, one who work hard tirelessly to improve their product and others who simply rip off and profit from other’s hard work. The team at IOBit falls in later category. (more…)

Remove Seekservice.exe – This Process May Be Used By Malware

If you find the seekservice.exe process running in your system, then this should be alarming as your computer might be infected with malware. It is quite a dangerous process and it is unsafe to keep this process running. (more…)

Track Change In Windows 8 / 7 Registry & File System With TrackWinstall

When a program is installed, the installer makes changes to both Windows Registry and File System. Sometimes it is important to analyze this change. Analyzing the changes made by the program installer to your system is very important in some situations, consider two examples. 1. When you install a trial software, the program installer will [...] (more…)

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Analyze/Manage Processes, Auto Start Items, And System Modules In Windows

Do you want to manage the auto start items, the default manager in Windows which we have covered here is not enough. Recently, I needed to remove various startup entries that were not even listed in System Configuration Startup tab. When you uninstall a software, most of it’s system files are not removed, so how [...] (more…)

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Remove/Repair Potentially Unwanted Software And Programs With FreeFixer

FreeFixer is a free tool for Windows that assets a user in removing potentially unwanted programs such as spyware, trojans, adware, viruses and worms. According to the developer, this tool works by scanning a large number of locations where unwanted software has a known record of appearing or leaving traces. Once you have installed this [...] (more…)

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How To Protect USB Drive From Virus When Attached To Infected Computer

Have you ever attached a USB to a computer and later found out that the drive is infected by a virus? I have definitely faced this situation many times. If you attach your USB drive to the infected computer the virus is transferred to the drive in no time infecting all the important documents in [...] (more…)

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Did Your Computer Get Hijacked? Remove Hijacks From Your Computer With HijackThis

Are you fed up of reinstalling your Windows due to Malware or Spyware? Or you think that your computer might have gotton hijacked? This is where HijackThis comes in, it will Scan Your Registry and various other files for entries that are similar to what a Spyware or Hijacker Program would leave behind. Interpreting these [...] (more…)